Kafr Batna

Kafr Batna is a suburb of Damascus in Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria. The suburb had a population of 22,535 people in 2004, and it has a long history behind it. Once a village of Arameans, some Umayyads lived in the town into the 13th century, and a businessman and scholar from Hama named Abd al-Qadir al-Kaylani gave the town as a religious endowment to his wife al-Sharifa Rahmana. During the Syrian Civil War in the 2010s, Kafr Batna was the site of heavy fighting between the Syrian Arab Army and the Syrian Opposition, and it was bombarded by the Russian Air Force and Syrian Air Force due to the presence of jihadists in the area.